Dec. 6: What We’re Reading About the Cloud

It truly was a busy day in cloud computing, with Nimbula entering public beta, AWS announcing its DNS service, and Cisco forging a partnership with BMC Software. Also, Lorie MacVittie of F5 Networks adds a great take on why private clouds needn’t compete with public clouds on price, and there’s news that Acadia might be fading into a formal VCE entity.

Expanding the Cloud with DNS – Introducing Amazon Route 53 (From All Things Dsitributed) AWS makes deploying web apps on its infrastructure even more appealing (although, this service isn’t limited to AWS). There have been domain issues with AWS in the past, so I’m guessing this solves them.

Cisco, BMC Forge Cloud Infrastructure Partnership (From ZDNet) Cisco is smart to make all the cloud-software partnerships it can, and one around service providers is a natural fit. I have to wonder how VCE partner VMware feels, though, given its vCloud program.

Goldman Weighs-in on Google’s NYC ‘Data Hotel (From MarketBeat) I’m not sold on what the “strategic benefit” of this acquisition actually is. As Data Center Knowledge pointed out last week, energy costs are inordinately high in NYC, which would caution against a big web farm.